System Requirements for Mac OS X

General Requirements

In the menu to the right you will find specific requirements for each platform.

These requirements are common to all platforms:

A DVD drive for installation.
A working network card and internet connection is recommended during installation.
At least 1 GB memory, but 4 GB per processor core or more is recommended.
1-4 GB of disk space, depending on your licensed products and installation options.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 or later to view and print the COMSOL documentation in PDF format.

Floating Network Licenses

Floating network licenses are supported on heterogeneous networks of Windows, Linux, and Mac computers. Both the license manager and the COMSOL application can run on either Windows, Linux, or Mac, and a single computer can run both of them.

COMSOL Multiphysics System Requirements for Mac OS X

System Requirements for Intel 32-bit Processor

Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, or 10.7
Java 1.5 or 1.6

System Requirements for Intel 64-bit Processor

Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, or 10.7
Java 1.5 or 1.6

Java Availability

In Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 Java is included by default. In Mac OS X 10.7 you need to download and install Java.

Open Finder > Applications > Utilities.
Open Java Preferences.
If Java is not installed on the system, you will be asked to do so.

Graphics System Requirements

Prefer hardware rendering for performance reasons: drivers supporting OpenGL version 1.4 are required. Alternatively, use software rendering.

Supported NVIDIA® Graphics Cards

Card Model	Operating System	Driver Version
GeForce™ GT 120	Mac OS X 10.6	-

The GeForce™ GT 120 has been rigorously tested on OS X for compatibility with COMSOL Multiphysics.

Optional LiveLink for MATLAB Requirements

LiveLink for MATLAB is compatible with MATLAB R2011b and R2012a.

Optional Products for CAD Interoperability

The following products support import of 3D CAD files on OS X:

Product	Supported file formats	Required products
CAD Import Module	ACIS (SAT), IGES, Parasolid, Pro/E, and STEP	COMSOL Multiphysics

Note: Note that the CAD Import Module requires 64-bit Mac OS X.

Parallel System Requirements

COMSOL supports shared-memory parallelism on 32-bit and 64-bit Mac OS X. Distributed-memory parallelism is not supported.

Internet Protocol Support

IPv4 is supported on all Mac OS X platforms.